Let’s Make a Deal | Get out on the Slopes—and Stay in Your Budget
As always, we’ve found some great lift ticket deals for you this season, from $1 for a day of skiing to
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Splitsville | New Backcountry Gear for 2012–13 Shares the Love Among Skiers and Riders
While backcountry skiing gear has been evolving by leaps and bounds in recent years, splitboards, or snowboards that separate into
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Alternative Energy, Foreign Investments, and More Snowmaking | What’s New and Improved at Vermont’s Ski and Ride Areas
Vermont’s Alpine ski areas have been working overtime this summer stringing up four new lifts, building two new lodges, cutting
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Skinning Dipping | Resorts Respond to the Growing Interest in Uphill Travel
Skinning was once a niche activity practiced only by adventurous backcountry skiers seeking out uncrowded powder slopes far from the
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Bolton’s Big Deal | The Heat Is On To Save Bolton’s Backcountry
Like many other outdoor enthusiasts, my heart sank when I heard the news: the 1,161-acre tract of land known among
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Pearcervearance | How a Vermont Snowboarder’s Optimism and Determination Got Him Back on His Board
Prior to his accident, the world believed that Vermont’s Kevin Pearce would be an Olympic star. Within a matter of
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Board and Bred | Empyreal and PowderJets Bring Snowboard Manufacturing Back Home
If it were a different sort of winter—say, with piles of fluffy white stuff on the shores of Lake Champlain—entrepreneur
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Battle on the Beast of the East | Helly Hansen Big Mountain Battle Comes to Killington
In 2008, the folks at Helly Hansen tried something new. They sponsored a race in Aspen called the Battle of
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